Internet Explorer 6
 

I having been using Firefox for a few days so I decided to take IE6 off my Windows XP laptop. For the life of me I can't find a way to uninstall it.

Any ideas?

"You can't."

(Insert old justice dept jokes here.)

Not without fairly severe gyrations and incantations, anyway. You wouldn't save appreciable space and at some point you forkle a bunch of other code (MS and 3rd party) that depends on the engine.

add remove programs > windows components.

I think you need IE to update Windows. At least, I know you can't update with Firefox. At least, I can't.

Yea, that's part of the consent decree stuff but it really just hides the face. Everything is still there.

I guess the value depends on the purpose. Troit, why do you want to remove it?

I'd just take it off my desktop and leave it pretty much hidden. You can always fire it back up by opening any file/windows explorer window (My Computer, any directory, Control Panel etc) and typing in a web address in the location bar.

Right Click desktop > Desktop > Customize Desktop
Uncheck Internet Explorer

I started using Firefox because my computer was infected with a worm that only acted up I used IE. My fear is that although I have run spybot, adaware and Microsoft Defender - the worm will "come out of its hole" soon.

There's sadly little you can do about that one troit, even with IE removed you're still subject to the OS level security flaws that make it such a bitch to cope with. If you're worried about it your best bet is to be absolutely certain that you keep up to date on all the Windows patches and to run a decent software firewall like BlackIce (the Windows firewall isn't worth the disk space it occupies, but it's another "feature" that you can't remove).